These similar mumblings made Luo Yu'an feel as if her brain was about to be pierced. She covered her hand over the gap in a severe headache. The porcelain statue, which was as tall as a person, should have been cold to the touch, but she shivered when she put her hand on it. The surface of the statue was actually scorching hot.
The sounds of "It's so hot" and "It hurts" stopped for a moment, and then came out from the gap more and more intensely.
Luo Yu'an was also feeling hot and painful now. If she hadn't regained consciousness quickly and opened her eyes to see the black curtain in reality, she might have been infected by the pain and started moaning.
She got up from the ground and came to the God of the clan again. The God of the clan sat on the altar, and his appearance was not quite the same as the ceramic statue in the dark world, but he gave people a very similar feeling.
"Clan God, what should I do?" Luo Yu'an was not a very smart person. When faced with such a situation, she did not dare to act on her own and could only ask the clan god. If the statue was related to the clan god, he would definitely have instructions.
Ujigami listened to her question, smiled and gave a suggestion: "Why don't you try to see what's in that crack?"
Luo Yu'an: "I can't see clearly... Should I break it to see?"
Ujigami spoke slowly and calmly, "Break it? Then break it and see."
Because the tone was so peaceful and calm, Luo Yu'an's uneasiness gradually disappeared. Since Shi Shen acted so indifferent, it shouldn't matter, right
She was prepared, and when she saw the cracked ceramic statue again that night, she tried to push it off the altar and smash it, but the statue was much heavier than she thought, and she failed to push it, and her palms were burned red. Luo Yu'an did not give up easily, she climbed onto the altar, looked at the crack, put her hand in four fingers, and tried to pry it out.
She thought that if there were gaps, it would be easier to break. If she could break the small gaps into a big hole, she would be able to see what was inside. She stuck her fingers into the dark gap and instantly felt something was wrong. The temperature inside was much higher than the outside of the ceramic, as if there was a raging fire burning inside.
Luo Yu'an was so burned that she pulled her hand back, holding her red hand helplessly. The hair on her cheek was blown to her mouth by the breeze from nowhere. Luo Yu'an raised her hand to hook her hair behind her ear, and when she pulled it back, she found that her fingers were holding two long hairs.
hair
She held the two hairs and moved them close to the gap of the statue, trying to put the two hairs into the gap, and then moved closer to smell whether there was any smell of burning hair.
There was no smell of burning hair, only a faint unknown fragrance. However, the terrifying sound in the gap stopped.
It seems to be of some use? After a while, the sound came again. Luo Yu'an grabbed her thick hair and thought for a while. People grow new hair every day, and correspondingly, a lot of hair will fall out naturally, so she patiently combed it with her hands for a while, combing out more than a dozen hairs. Whenever the sound in the gap came, she would push a hair in.
She felt as if she had found a way to block out the sound.
When she woke up in the morning, she came before Shi Shen as usual. Before she could say anything, she saw Shi Shen suddenly cover his mouth and cough for a while. After he put down his hand, more than a dozen long hairs appeared in his palm.
Luo Yu'an looked at the dozen or so hairs in Shi Shen Cibai's palm.
Ujigami said gently, "Next time, don't stuff anything in my body."
In your body...
Luo Yu'an took his hair awkwardly: "Okay, I'm sorry."
She suddenly realized the implication of this and asked in surprise, "Is that your body? If so, why would you let me break it?"
Ujigami smiled and said, "It is precisely because you cannot break it that I let you try. There is nothing else to do anyway."
Thinking of that nightmare-like experience, Luo Yu'an suddenly realized. Could it be that Shi Shen was playing some game every night? Was he too bored? If so, if Shi Shen wanted her to play with him, she couldn't say no.
When she went there at night, she heard the groaning in the crack again. She felt a headache, so she started singing, trying to drown out the voice of the god that could get into people's brains. It really worked. At least after her voice drowned out the sound in the crack, the sound in the crack disappeared. She sang non-stop for a long time, and felt a little sore in her throat when she woke up in the morning.
Put your hands together and ask the god: "How did you feel last night?"
Ujigami nodded with a smile: "Okay, but I hope you can change the song."
Luo Yu'an was ashamed. She was not very good at singing and couldn't remember the lyrics, so she sang the very brainwash song that was often played in the supermarket downstairs.
"Then can I tell you some stories, recite some poems or something?"
"It seems easier to accept than the song last night."
The horrifying scene inexplicably turned into a strange scene. Apart from the fact that Luo Yu'an felt like a night owl, with his days and nights reversed and he needed some time to catch up on sleep during the day, there were no other problems.
At noon, there was no music outside the courtyard, and the girls were burning paper outside again.
Those were all the sacrificial texts that the Qin clan members had copied by hand, hoping to appease the pain of the clan god during the birthday month of the god. However, as the generations passed, this custom had become a formality, and the function of the sacrificial texts to soothe pain had long since disappeared. Long ago, people copied sacrificial texts for the clan god to thank him for his protection. Strong apologies and sincere gratitude could be conveyed in this way. But now, those sacrificial texts convey very weak emotions, and no strong feelings anymore.
And the requiem music that played all night long was not as comforting to him as a little girl's sincere concern.
The little human girl he had left behind was curled up behind him, sleeping. Thanks to her, this God's Birthday Month didn't seem so painful.
Although it was a little different from what he had imagined before.
On the day when the God's Birthday Month ended, it snowed outside. The quiet heavy snow covered the entire yard, hiding the bush of red camellia. The women of the clan walked into the yard on the snow, their expressions more serious than usual.
They brought a tree with many branches, the trunk was golden, the branches were silver, and the countless forked branches were decorated with countless white beads.
"Clan God, the clan tree has been delivered." After saying this, they stepped back outside the curtain and waited.
The long hair and sleeves of the clan god floated slightly, and countless red threads extended from his sleeves, wrapping up the clan tree bit by bit. This process lasted for a long time, and when all the red threads were retracted, a few sporadic red spots appeared on the originally golden and silver clan tree, and a few white beads changed color.
The clan daughters came in, looked carefully at the beads that had turned red, and found out the clan members they corresponded to on the clan tree.
"Ujigami, there are four people this time. They will be sent here tomorrow for your judgment."
Luo Yu'an leaned out to watch them carrying the tree away, and was a little curious, "Shishen, what is that?"
"The Qin clan tree, each bead represents a living Qin clan member. The tree is big and has deep roots, so it is inevitable that some dead branches and leaves will appear. I just need to find them and prune them, every year."
The next day, the daughter of the clan brought in four people. Two were between 40 and 50 years old, and two looked to be in their teens or 20s. When the four were brought in, all of them looked pale.
The maiden lowered the curtain and stepped back. Four blood lines emerged from the sleeves of the god of the clan and fell on the foreheads of the four people, wriggling and ready to penetrate their foreheads and see through everything about them. The two older people did not dare to resist, but the youngest one was frightened and wanted to escape. He was quite skilled and was about to escape from the shrine in the blink of an eye. Seeing him like this, another young man in his twenties also became restless and resisted the red line in front of him.
Before he could step back, the young man who had run out earlier had already fallen in the snow. After a scream, the person who fell on the snow melted into a pile of red blood foam, leaving a red human-shaped mark on the white snow.
The kind-looking Shishen smiled at the three people without saying anything. The young man collapsed to the ground in fear and dejection, allowing a blood line to pierce his brain. The three people's foreheads were connected by a blood line. Shishen closed his eyes and carefully examined it. After a moment, he sighed and retracted the blood line.
Luo Yu'an hid behind Shi Shen from beginning to end and did not see what happened. He only heard the scream and Shi Shen's sigh.
The three men were taken away by the clan girl with dazed expressions. When the clan girl asked what to do with the three men, the clan god just said the word "death" lightly.
The red snow in the yard was cleared.
“Is there any evil in them?”
“It is not just evil, but it is filled with malice and must be cut off.”
"I thought you would devour them?"
"Those who are devoured by me will never have an afterlife."
Luo Yu'an was silent for a moment, hugging his knees and lost in thought. No afterlife, is this a severe punishment
After the birthday of the god, it is the first month of the new year. Nowadays, ordinary people don't pay much attention to the New Year, but it is different here. The birthday of the god makes people feel depressed, while the first month of the new year is very lively from beginning to end. The people in the old house are very happy. Even the food in the canteen is much richer. There are also many more Qin clan members in the house. These people are here to worship the clan god. This old house seems to be their ancestral hall.
Some people can only worship outside the shrine courtyard, so when Luo Yu'an went out to eat, she saw rows of incense burners outside the courtyard, which were filled with thick incense sticks. The smoke filled the entire courtyard. Shi Shen couldn't help but sigh to her that the smoke was too irritating. It was not the first time he had said this.
Only a few people were allowed to enter the courtyard to worship, mostly elderly people, whom the clan women called clan elders. The gray-haired old people knelt in front of the shrine and burned incense to the clan god. The leader had a very dignified temperament and said, "Pray to the clan god to continue to protect the family next year."
Luo Yu'an suspected that they couldn't see the clan god, or that the clan god was using some kind of trick. In any case, when they were bowing to the altar, the clan god was actually standing behind them and watching. Luo Yu'an pulled his sleeve and stood beside him, and heard the clan god pointing at the leading old men and saying, "I blessed these children when they were born, and now they are returning to death."
“Time flies by so fast.”
After these old people left, people started sending offerings one after another. They were all sent by people with a certain status in the Qin family, and they almost filled the entire shrine.
"There are so many offerings, all of them are food."
"Well, you can eat all of this food."
Luo Yu'an no longer minds whether or not the clan girls will find out that something is wrong when he eats the offerings, because they have discovered it countless times during this period but were unable to find the cause and could only blame it on rats.
After searching for a while, a special offering was found from among those expensive pastries and natural preserved fruits. It turned out to be a lot of snacks in beautifully packaged items.
Ujigami squeezed the rustling package and asked, "Is this delicious?"
Luo Yu'an tore open the package and tasted it, and felt that he had never eaten such delicious snacks in his life. However, since people have kept up with the times and sent snacks as gifts, why didn't anyone offer mobile phones, computers, etc. to the gods
Because most of the shrine was occupied by offerings, Luo Yu'an had to sleep on the second floor of the shrine, very close to the clan god. In a daze, she smelled a cool breath of ice and snow, and a little fragrance lingering at the tip of her nose, which was a smell she had been very familiar with for some time.
I opened my eyes and saw a red camellia with green leaves beside my cheek. There was white snow accumulated in the slightly closed petals, as if it had just been picked from the snow.
Is this a gift from Ujigami